Select Page
by bcadmin | Jan 5, 2022 | Featured, Media, Media & Culture, News, Patrick Peyton, rosary, Saints, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
The impact that “the Rosary Priest” had was immense, and even in death he is positioned as a saintly ambassador for family prayer. Peyton’s worldwide Rosary Rallies and his far-reaching media work all stemmed from a childhood devotion and making good on a promise made to the Virgin Mary to make her known and loved to millions around the globe.
by bcadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | A Christmas Carol, Christmas, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, It's a Wonderful Life, Media, Media & Culture, News | 0 |
In cheering for Scrooge and Bailey, we are cheering for ourselves at the same time. And then it may occur to us that this is the basic message of Christmas: love of neighbor, release from fear, and joy at the arrival of Christ in a manger in Bethlehem. “God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, remember Christ Our Savior was born on Christmas Day”.
by bcadmin | Jun 7, 2021 | Featured, forgiveness, healing, Media & Culture, News | 0 |
Recently, the second season of the series The Chosen was released. This series focuses on the disciples of Christ (i.e. those who are “chosen” to follow him), and beautifully re-enacts various anecdotes from the Gospels. I have shared previously that I am working to break the cycle of abuse in my family of origin, and […]
by bcadmin | Jun 3, 2021 | Featured, Hilaire Belloc, Media, Media & Culture, memory, News, sacramentals | 0 |
“We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental;…(and) there is a resurrection, and we are refreshed and renewed.” — Hilaire Belloc, “On Sacramental Things” In his luminous and reflective 1910 essay entitled “On Sacramental Things”, the Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) explores the phenomenon of recollection and communion. […]
by bcadmin | Mar 22, 2021 | Featured, Holy Week, Mary, Media & Culture, Movie Reviews, News, Resurrection | 0 |
My book, A Lenten Journey with Mother Mary, allowed the messages of Mary’s apparitions to become a guidepost for one’s Lenten observance. Mary’s messages help to examine one’s conscience, provide intentions for which to pray, allow Mary to become a teacher of prayer, and entrust to her intercession those in need of healing. For Holy Week, […]
by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Culture, Featured, Josef Pieper, liberalism, Media & Culture, News, Philosophy, Virtue | 0 |
Why Josef Pieper Needs To Be Read There are two ironies that characterize the life and works of Josef Pieper. He was born in the year 1904 in the Westphalian village of Elte, a town so isolated that no train was available to take any of its citizens to any other part of Westphalia. Yet […]
by bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Featured, Media & Culture, News | 0 |
(Note: this article contains spoilers from the second season of The Mandalorian, including spoilers from the season finale.) A man of few words, suddenly responsible for a child of incalculable worth? A man who finds himself letting go of the life he once imagined, in exchange for a life protecting a child who possesses powers […]
by bcadmin | Nov 12, 2020 | Communion of saints, EWTN, Featured, Media & Culture, News, Saints | 0 |
I was invited by EWTN to participate on All Souls Day and say a few words about the Communion of Saints. My host informed me that many of the televiewers know very little about the Communion of Saints, and therefore I should be simple and straightforward. My approach was staring me in the face. The acronym […]
by bcadmin | Oct 13, 2020 | exorcism, Featured, Film, halloween, Horror, Media & Culture, News | 0 |
It’s October, which means that people all across the country are carving their jack-o-lanterns and preparing themselves for the scariest holiday of them all, Halloween. This is traditionally a day when people celebrate ghosts, ghouls, and everything that goes bump in the night. But many Catholics would like to “baptize” this holiday and celebrate it […]
by bcadmin | Jan 20, 2020 | Books, creativity, Featured, Media & Culture, News, novels, Podcasts, science fiction | 0 |
Catholics have produced some of the finest novels ever written, but you wouldn’t always know that from today’s selections. Some of the faithful have certainly noticed and have started to bring their experience and creativity into the fictional realm in hopes of shaping the broader culture and to re-introduce the Catholic voice to fiction. Today’s […]
Recent Comments